what are your must have supplies for the ancient city?!

From what I noticed in my worlds most of the ancient cities spawn under a mountain either with loads of flowers and or villager towns nearby

I've been playing on this world for weeks, living in a mountain, and though there was Skulk everywhere, I couldn't find a city! This helped me get the mindset right on how to find it. I got out my regional map, got some torches, and went mining in a 100x100 grid at -50y. Ignored caves. Gathered ores I hit. Built walkways through caves. Kept digging through Deep Dark areas. I noted on the map there was another white mountain peak nearby the one I live in I'd never noticed, and sure enough, the city was under there. Took an hour or so.

Oddly enough, the ancient city I found was relatively close to the ocean. It wasn't under it, but it was a lot closer than I anticipated. Still under high terrain--it was basically a cliff-coast situation.

i have noticed if you have a big mountain range you can get multiple ancient cities. 4 cities is my best so far

0:24 Method 1: Trial & Error 2:27 Where to look 2:53 Method 2: Caving 5:59 Method 3: Branch Mining 9:02 Method 4: Portals 12:47 Method 5: Surface Caves

I got extremely lucky while looking for an ancient city, I generated a new random seed and spawned almost right next to a mountain, I decided to dig straight down to see if there was a city there and I found one with a cave connecting straight to a second one, I so wish I saved the seed so I could use it on a server with friends but alas I did not and I had to factory reset my computer before I thought of saving the seed

When searching for an Ancient City, always carry a zoom level 4 locator map or two around so you always know where you are under the mountain. Also the locator maps work in the Nether so you can see roughly where in the overworld the Nether portal will appear. No need to do hit-or-miss portals when you have a map. You only need to travel around on the overworld surface for a bit to pre-map the mountains being targeted from the Nether. (EDIT: Oh wow, Java locator maps don't work in the Nether. OK - they they to port that feature from Bedrock over to Java. They could even add a recipe for the cartograhpy table involving a locator map and echo shard to create a map that works in the Nether if Mojang doesn't want to make that feature free.) Also, on Bedrock Ancient Cities on shore lines next to oceans are just as likely as inland ones. The "needs to be dry" rule doesn't apply there.

Wattles is literally the hand guide of Minecraft 😅

I'll say the exception to how it spawns is on old worlds depending on the seed but anyway on my main after converting it spawned under an ocean no less. Been playing that world save on an off since like 2014.

Me and my friends found one under the mountains at the first try! Your video was very helpful so thank you.

Hi Wattles thank you so much. I spent hours looking for an ancient city and had no luck. I'm going to use these methods. I wasn't sure what to look for when searching for an ancient city now I do. I hope I find one soon. All I'm still looking for a wild woods. Still haven't found one. Love ur vids 🙂👍

wattles be like: talking about ancient cities several times. also wattles: never raided an ancient city in Survival.

Thank you so much I didn’t find an ancient city but I found a massive mineshaft and got nearly a stack of diamonds so far

Awesome, found it first try on the first strategy!

My experience is that most cities are around drippstone caves, but then I started a new seed where all that went out the window. I checked with Chunkbase and it showed a city just 500 blocks away from spawn and a few thousand blocks further away a cluster of 6 cities in a circle. This seed also has a desert close to spawn with 6 tempels. -5792008899809711720 is the seed. My suggestion is to make a copy of your game and use spectator mode or chunk base to find anything really.

i've gotten so good at finding ancient cities that i looked at the first mountain i came across in my peaceful world and was RIGHT

Thank you for the content!❤

I have been getting sent to caves at the regular 50-ish y coordinates when in the nether and getting back out, lately. I've had to build portals up by the nether roof to be on the surface. So now I wonder if this on purpose.

my personal favorite is to find a deep dark biome via any method above then strip mine 200 or so blocks in any direction

Caves look amazing now!

Merry almost Christmas wattles

Good vid, as always, thanks 😎

Portaling for the win I found one second try, and it's insane for diamonds too, thank you

If u are too lazy to find a mountain peak, then try the nether portal trick, just a quick tip: 1. Dig down to y 5 or y 6 2. Break 50 blocks or 100 blocks away from your starting portal ( same with the 2nd portal or etc ) 3. When done check y cordinate, if its 6 then place the portal at y 6 ( remember if u are standing at y 5 go up 1 block and create a portal, bc at y5 the portal will teleport u to random places ), at y6 u always meet a cave 4. After that check the biome, if under forest, plains then go back create another portal until u find a deep dark This method took me 15+ times idk

got it first try with the trial and error method, tysm my guy!

What are you, a genius? I was getting frustrated trying to find an ancient city in my current seed. Found your vid via google, realised I only knew of one snowy mountain and went for a look - down the first cave I come across and found a city. :D

Thanks man, i found the city at the first mountain i looking for, only 2000 feet from home

for one example, my best friend and I and his wife and a couple other friends started a world And like at the 2400-800 mark was a mountain villager settlement and like below it took to a cave but right underneath that was an ancient city So try somewhere further from your spawn, not every mountain village may have one but it's a possibility you'll find one like that. tip: making a water elevator may be a good safe means of going up and down to the city, leave yourself enough air pockets to get to the surface and if you feel confident enough you can swim straight down and get there faster

What about mountain like regions in the desert/badlands, or savannah? Would those be decent places to look?

love yah wattles!! :)

I like that you called it "Trial and Error Box" LOL, perfect name,

I personally have found 4 ancient cities on the DEZOcraft server while digging our tunnels underground. So far we have found totally 5 ancient cities one of which I have claimed to keep others from greiffing. They are not as rare as some players think they are. We figure that there may be at least 5 or more on our server. Maybe the seed is just lucky but we do keep finding the cities underground.

For mining i recomend having a water bucket , place it in your tunel and start swiming until you get the fast swiming animation and break blocks in front of you and just dive into it so you mine 1x1 and not 2x1 (you can do the same with trapdoors

The way my world is, every time I go mining I find an ancient city and its kind of annoying because I never bring shulker boxes and my inventory is always full because I’m so tempted to get the loot.

Well I know there's one near my base cause I saw it on a map (looking for what chunk to trim-update), but it's under a mountain cave system I've already light up so I would've found it anyway (I had some spawn farms there). But still will tru to find others with no maps tho, have some big mountain chains

Very helpful

Looked for an ancient city, found an end stronghold

Wattles, please raid one in your survival world!!

Your voice is hella friendly I love it

I need more wattles give me POWER!!!

I’ve found and raided 2 ancient cities in my world and still haven’t gotten the silence armor trim, so hopefully this video gets me there, thx 👍

Goodnight wattles ❤

Yooooow....I was so eager to find one, so I stumbled into this video and decided to give it a shot. After a few more minutes I tried to look for the highest mountain and dig straight down, and got myself dropped into the ancient city...and not later that 30sec I died :( not knowing what to do when I encountered the warden 😭😂 this guide is so effective💛 thank you so much (rip xp)

how about making a series about "how to find everything" that goes over fining everything in the game and its methods

Okay I'm just have a question might be dumb but oh well I watch all your videos as much as possible if I get stuck on something I go back to reference it I'm thinking about doing a super flat world like you got I think it's cool that the stronghold still forms what about ancient cities does that actually show up on a super flat

Honestly, I clicked on the vid but stopped at like 0:05 because trying to find the ancient city is what's been the most fun. Traversing the deep dark, clearing out all the sensors and shriekers and obsessively looking as if I was some history buff way in over his head cave diving and excavating is so damn fun

TYSM YOU HELLPED ME

yo wattles we need to know asap how to get bamboo blocks. quite a few of us are not seeing it in the new snapshot, and are confused on how to get it. something data pack is all we have heard

Branching could have included trap doors so the player only needs to make a 1 high tunnel, saving some durability on tools.

The Ancient City found by my friend on our shared MC pocket world was under the ocean. We had to find a small island that was sea level in order to start digging down. Luckily it was far enough away from our home town starter area for us to place a nether portal and make it a shorter trek.

Wattles is like a Minecraftopedia !

Great video

Amazing video

Yo when he said try and mine some of the Sculk blocks cuz it might hide more to the cave I tried it… My best friend and I thought we hit a dead end. But when I tried that method it led me to a whole new part of the cave with more Sculk blocks and sensors…😳

The dedication this man puts into yt, fantastic

14:13 That city is right next to an ocean.

I taught myself to find them, just practice constantly in creative mode, before I leave the world or give up, I use "/locate" to see how close I was, I calculated my average, my average is 154 blocks away from the ancient city if A mountain is past Y level 150 and its pointy, there is a good chance you will find a ancient city. P.s I find In bedrock edition, it usually generates around a mineshaft.

Oh my god thank you thank you thank you I actually found the ancient city thanks to this video thank you so much!!!!!😆😆😆

Mountain guide worked well

Groves biomes seem to have a really high chance of having one nearby based on looking at random maps. Not that that's helped me.

You can use a chunk nasty too

I have a simple idea, make a copy of your world and turn that copy into creative mode, now locate the biome you need using locate biome command, now go to the exact coordinates in your of survival world.

I may have been cheating a little but I figured out how do you see through walls in Minecraft so I just went to Y level 50 under my mountain in literally the middle of my continent and I found the ancient city automatically. Thanks Wattles

So I started my world looking for a good place to set up base and then I find this huge mountain. Good views, Nice caves. I've already spelunked the entire cave by now so its completely empty. But in the process I found out I accidentally built my base over the deep dark. And I wasn't even trying to look for it

new speedrun tactic is just getting a load of wool then digging down asap huh

1:16 I WAS WATCHING THIS WHILE IN A DEEP DARK

ancient city guide lets gooooo

Another way to find an ancient city is to always try to find a cherry grove biome. If u find a small one, search for a larger cherry grove biome(should be within approx 300 blocks). After u find the cherry grove, dig straight down and BOOM! There's the ancient city! This is a guaranteed method of finding an ancient city.

Ancient cities have high or guaranteed chances to spawn under mountains that go up to at least y-level 125 with snow or stone on top under the mountain if there is sculk you have a high chance of finding one cause ancient cites are very huge and tall the width is around 200-250 blocks long and the height is around y-level -52 ~ -24 so be prepared with a water bucket for the fall if you dig straight down Hope this tip helped and be carful around the warden it does a lot of damage and you need full protection IV (4) diamond armor to survive ONE HIT

Request: terralith review!! After trying it I cant play without it anymore

You should of made a quick disclaimer at the beginning saying “if you are killed by the warden via his sound waves all the items you are carrying on you will de-spawn” because I just lost all my stuff and I’m 28,000 blocks away from my spawn.

I accidentally came across this in survival, it scared the shit outta me the first time

Can we just appreciate the effort he puts into these videos

I tested this and the city always spawned under terrain that's at a high y-level (110+). 4/10 were under Caves and Cliffs biomes.

I found an ancient city with trial and error on my first try thank u.

Love how I've gotten 40 blocks of diamond and still have not found one

Considering I found an Ancient City that was close to a river I'd say it doesn't have to be completely free of water, just not near an ocean. (Randomly generated seed)

Also, something I could point is that ancient cities aren't that rare, there are mountains with 2 cities within 300m, so perhaps, is using a map mod/api so despicable you would rather fly the world and make your map size go up to 20GB? Idk, but still, if you have mountains near your spawn, try there (unless your map is older, but you can always delete chunks)

If the deepdark spawn height starts at Y90-Y50 it's 100% ancient city near it...

That portal method is good, didn't they bring back infinite lava?

"Dig under a mountain" "Find a cave under a mountain" "Branch mine under a mountain" so... just playing minecraft?

Wattles 101 nice name tbh

I like how this is more of a tutorial how to keep your sanity and menta health-

Is it just me or is his voice soothing lol

you can trap door mine to strip mine more efficiently

/locate structure ancient_city

11:40 anybody know if this fills in the space between portals? or would i still be able to load those chunks at a later update?

does ones with sakura biome work too?

ive spent endless hours on the last method, across so so so many different worlds, its driving me completely nuts and wasting all my fireworks...

I like the portal, i’m struggling to find deep caves

WATTLES!!!!

the best method is a cool feature called xray :3

Does this man not know to dig with a bucket of water and an Aqua Affinity helmet? Saves me from lava and falls all the time... And a Trident to get back up to the surface quickly makes it easy...

The easiest way to find an ancient city is to go to creative mode and do the /locate command

Thought Warden was warm up and Endardragon is boss but after seeing this i should reach end city first than Warden what a drag ?😢

Is there a mod to stop skulk from generating outside ancient cities?

Found mine under a snow mountain next to the ocean not far from where I spawned

few minutes ago i raided an ancient city for the first time in my life and i managed to get a silence armor trim and a swift sneak lll enchanted book

Hello today I found a ancient city and this is crazy because I found a runed portal in it idk what are the chances of that